Tag Archives: Connection

The Path of Generosity

Posted on October 15, 2023 by alohapromisesforever

The Path of Generosityby Michael DoyleStanding on a mountain of epiphanyStill, wondering what might come for meThis is no moment of bumper-sticker fameSome of the things happening are a shameReaching out for all the unreachedBringing the resources so that the … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Blessings, Bumper-Sticker, Chance, Christmas Spirit, Church, Circumstances, Connection, Darkness, Embrace, Epiphany, Fame, Feed, Fish and Loaves, Five Thousand, Forge, Generosity, Give, Gospel, Gratitude, In Light Of, Live, Mount Kilimanjaro, Nobility, Opportunity, Paralable, Path, Poetry and Poems, Preach, Promise, Reach, Resurrection, Right Attitude, Satisfaction, Shame, Space, Speak, Spiritual Economy, The Lord, Tomorrow, Truth to Power, Unchurched, Understand, Unreached, Wonder | Leave a comment

The With-Ness of Our Witness

Posted on October 8, 2023 by alohapromisesforever

The With-Ness of Our Witnessby Michael DoyleGod isn’t a cosmic killjoy out to dealOut the harsh things that keep it realGod is faithful and loves celebrationAnd lessons he often teaches are with elationWe sometimes arrive a little rough around the … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Action, Bridgee, Celebration, Connection, Cosmic Killjoy, Deal, Death, Edge, Elation, Four Gospels, God, Godly Ways, Hars, Pentecost, Poetry and Poems, Prevail, Real, Reborn, Resurrection, Rough, Sin, Teach, Traction, With-Ness, Witness | Leave a comment

Between the Uncomfortable Truths

Posted on July 29, 2023 by alohapromisesforever

Between the Uncomfortable Truthsby Michael DoyleIn the uncomfortable truths there were connectionsNothing compared to her open, honest reflectionsOn those things often very difficult to sayShe never paid much mind to bringing controversy to the dayPerhaps it is that she truly … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Ahead of Her Time, Another Day, Approximation, Artistry, Attempt, Bardo, Bardo of Experienced True Reality, Between, Between Death and Rebirth, Bi-Polar Disorder, Bled, Bound, Brought Down Slow, Caged, Candle, Child, Circumspection, Clear Light, Come, Compassion and Wisdom, Concealed, Connection, Controversy, Conversations, Corridor, Cosmic Liberation, Cross, Culpable, Death, Death Closes In, Defiled, Deities, Devastation, Different Orders, Difficult To Say, Dimensions, Drawn Back, Duality, Earth, Edges, Entirely Undone, Express, Extinction of Illussion, Fateful Day, Fearlessness, Fine Romance, Fleeting Mometns, Forgot, God's Kingdom, Guide, Honest, Honesty, Increments, Karmic Hazard, Last Breath, Liberation, Life, Lived Undead, Lose, Losses, Love Transcended, Maya's Veils, Morality, Multiple Forms, Mystical Union, Nothing Compared, One's Breath, Open, Paid, Parent, Peace, Peaceful, Place of Healing, Poetry and Poems, Post-Conventional, Prior, Properly Alive, Properly Dead, Realities, Reality, Reflections, Regained, Regret, Rememberings, Remorse, Restratined, Said It Best, Sinead O'Connor, Slide, Sorrow, Soul Revealing, Soulmate, Spiritual Borders, Spiritually Capable, Starry Firmament, Stone, Success, Surprising, Suspended, Tomorrow, Truly Hearing, Truths, Tweet, Twilight Language, Uncertain Circumstance, Uncomfortable, Understanding, Unholy Feeling, Up-Ended, Voice, Walk, Walk the Line, Wisdom, Words, Words of Love, World's Loss, World's Soul, Wrathful, Yab-Yum | Leave a comment

X Marks the Spot

Posted on July 26, 2023 by alohapromisesforever

X Marks the Spotby Michael DoyleSo now, here it is, and seemsThat in a community of dreamsX has come to mark the spotWhere the globe connects the dotsOf conversations that we fieldWhere no one really yieldsBut mingles outbursts of conversationThat … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Ability, Ambiguity, Artificial Wall, Authority, Boundary-Crushing, Bridge, Certain Cool, Churn, Clashing Views, Cognitive Dissonance, Commodity, Community, Compel, Connection, Conversations, Corporate Decisions, Creativity, Credibility, Curious, Cycle of Life and Death, Dare, Decision, Defy, Depedent, Derision, Desperation, Detail, Dreams, Dues, Economy, Elon, Extremes, Fascination, Find, Flair, Giddiness, Global Town Square, Globe, Grin, Happneing, Inspiration, Lash, Learn, Ledge, Legendary, Let Go, Memories, Mind, Opportunistic, Opportunity, Original Sin, Outbursts, Paypal, Perpetuity, Pleasure, Poetry and Poems, Point of Success, Rebranding, Rejuvenation, Resistance, Seams, Smallest Detail, Spot, Stomach Acid, Symbol, Symbology, Thrive, Understanding, Unfinished Business, Universal Imagination, Unlimited Interactivity, Vaporware, WeChat, X, Yield | Leave a comment

Dwelling Richly

Posted on July 23, 2023 by alohapromisesforever

Dwelling Richlyby Michael DoyleStanding there caught amidst my sighI raise my hands up to the skyGiving myself in prayerful conversationIn the truth of my greatest relationIn an echo of God’s word, lived in my lifeI turn further toward peace, away … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Best, Boy, Connection, Conversation, Direction, Dwell, Echo, God's Will, Journey, Man, Peace, Poetry and Poems, Relation, Richly, Sigh, Sky | Leave a comment

Everything Made Easier

Posted on July 13, 2023 by alohapromisesforever

Everything Made Easierby Michael DoyleEverything is made easier with a breathAnd the touch of your handI look into your soul and find the depthThat has always helped me to understandIt’s there in our strength of connectionSeeing from your perspective forms … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Agree, Arms Open Wide, Bond, Breath, Connection, Depth, Easier, Every Sight, Everything, Feeling, Forgive, Heart, History, Love, Love Again, Perspective, Poetry and Poems, Renewed, Respond, Selfless, Side, Soul, Soul's Revealing, Strength, Touch, True Affection, Understand, Your Eyes | Leave a comment

Self-Stirred To Capability

Posted on April 23, 2023 by alohapromisesforever

Self-Stirred To Capabilityby Michael DoyleStepping up to live and serveI walk in more blessings than I deserveIn this faith, I grow and growLiving more love than I might knowGuilt and innocence is our cultureLitigious in nature is what we nurtureCaught … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Abundance, Accounability, Answer, Artistry of God, Authenticity, Awarness, Best, Best Answers, Better, Blame, Blessings, Breath, Capability, Casting Blame, Chaos, Choices, Coached and Nurtured, Conceive, Confide, Confidence, Connection, Core, Culture, Cure, Dare, Disease, Distrubring, Due, Dynamic, Earth, Ease, Endure, Every Setting, Expression, Faith, Fate, Father's Kingdom, Feedback, Fierce Listener, Final Destination, Flow, Forgive, Four-Letter Word, Frame, Freedom, God, God's Love, Healthy, Hearts, Help, Humble, Image of God, Integrity, Interpersonal, Iron, Justification, Learning to Live, Legacy, Life, Life's Game, Listen, Litigious, Live Up, Lived Gently, Love, Make, Man's Search For Meaning, Measure, Ownership, Part-By-Part, Particpation, Path, Patience, Pause, Perceive, Poetry and Poems, Possibility, Predictable, Probabilities, Pushing Through, Rationalization, Real-Time, Reconcile, Redemptive View, Reflection, Relationship, Rescue, Respond, Responsibility, Roll, Rusted Triangle, Self-Stireed, Sense, Shades of Blame, Shame, Sharpen, Side-By-Side, Societal Cancer, Spent, Stepping Up, Substantive, Take, Time, Triggered by, Troubles, Trust, Truth, Victim, Villain, Violation, Voices, Weight | Leave a comment

Burning Down Our Idols

Posted on November 29, 2022 by alohapromisesforever

Burning Down Our Idolsby Michael DoyleIn our desire for deepening connectionEach of us worships in our own directionFixated with our paths of our obsessionThe things we dwell on take their possessionThere is the compromise of our aspirationWhich becomes the conformity … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Admiration, Aspiration, Burning Down, Compromise, Confromity, Connection, Cultivation, Dedication, Direction, False Theolgoy, Ideology, Idols, Obsession, Poetry and Poems, Possession, Significance, Worship | Leave a comment

Inside the Godflow

Posted on November 6, 2022 by alohapromisesforever

Inside the Godflowby Michael DoyleBlessed by our confirmationWe are delivered by our affirmationTo honor Christ, coming as we areWishing on the hope of the Christmas StarLeaning in on our faith given in connectionOur prayers tailor fit our meditationsPraying in Jesus’ … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Affirmation, Blessed, Christ, Christmas Star, Confirmation, Connection, Destination, Faith, Godflow, Hope, Inside, Meditation, Poetry and Poem, Salvation | Leave a comment

Pretender or Contender

Posted on October 18, 2022 by alohapromisesforever

Pretender or Contenderby Michael DoyleDrawing on song lyrics in my dayMakes life special in its own wayThe singer is my daughter, and she’s on fireAs legends are made to grow and conspireA life led in three-part inspirationWe all know the … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Appetites, Baptism, Best, Bread, Breakthrough, Capable, Connection, Conspire, Contemplation, Contender, Continuity, Daughter, End, Fire, Friend, Hunger, Immersion, Jesus, Legends, Perspiration, Poetry and Poems, Pretender, Raised Awareness, Regret, Resistance, Satan, Singer, Song Lyrics, Special, Spirit, Stone, Striking Foot, Strong Feeling, Susceptible, Temper, Temptation, Tempter, Test, Three Part Inspiration, Tired, Ultimate Truth | Leave a comment